Jeric
On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 17:45, Bruce Marshall wrote:
And what do you expect to gain by this, even if it was possible?
To keep from continually/unnecessarily using swap which greatly degrades system performance. With 512MB RAM, and the programs which I run, I should not be touching my swap.
So, is it possible? I know it is in windows, but I have not been able to find a Linux utility for this procedure.
You can probably do this by writing something appropriate to one of the pseudo files in /proc (but this likely to be dangerous.) I bet you run updatedb/locate from the findutils-locate package on this machine -- the only machine of mine that touches swap is also the only 8.2 machine that I have it installed on. And I would also wager that you use reiserfs which is very aggressive about caching directory entries.